Yeah, they were game show hosts

A guy named Bradley Clarke puts some cute articles about game shows on the Interwebs now and then.

He's got a new list of celebs who hosted game shows, even if you don't recall their gigs in the genre. As a grizzled old game show blogger, I do remember all these hosts. Though I'll admit that I've spent way too many hours watching game shows which didn't deserve way too many hours.

One of Clarke's picks is Carrie Ann Inaba, who hosted GSN's reboot of 1 vs. 100 in 2010. This was a show that I thought did deserve a bigger audience, but my view was not the received opinion. GSN had to cheapen the prize money and production values - this is cable, folks - and that left the reboot open to easy criticism. Carrie was also not the best host, as she tended to rely on irritating catch phrases.

Sure enough, Bradley Clarke plods through some of these complaints in his acidic view of GSN's version. Overall, the rewind was hardly terrible, even if it suffered in comparison to NBC's original. But GSN's viewers turned thumbs down, and 1 vs. 100 perished after its first season. There was no 95-episode renewal for Carrie and friends.